Room 26 with view of Cabinet 25. Drawings were exhibited in Room 26. There is a view of Cabinet 25 through the doorway, and Portrait of an Old Woman Cutting Her Nails, now in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, can be seen on the right.

Room 28, wall B. Portrait of a Lady, now in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, hangs second from the right.

The 14 mounted silver collodion photographs in this folio highlight the preparation and installation in Amsterdam of the 1898 Rembrandt tentoonstelling [Rembrandt Exhibition], which commemorated the coronation of Holland’s new queen, Wilhelmina. The ambitious exhibition, consisting of 124 paintings and 350 drawings and etchings, was an homage both to the Queen and to Rembrandt, one of Holland’s most famous artists. It included Rembrandt’s monumental canvas The Nightwatch pictured in transit across the Museumplein to the Stedelijk Museum (modern spelling), where it was shoehorned in through a window. Curator Hofstede de Groot envisioned a monographic exhibition featuring Rembrandt’s entire body of work, but 400 paintings from his oeuvre were instead displayed in photographic reproductions.

“The Dutch could have paid no nobler homage to their young Queen and her coronation, than by bringing together a collection of the masterpieces of the greatest painter to whom Holland has given birth.”

“The number of foreigners who crowded to Amsterdam during September and October to see the Rembrandt-Exhibition was indeed enormous.”